sound effects from their site.
+Syd Adams:
+ Added clipping to 2d instruments. Added volume control to ATC-chatter.
+ Created and maintain: DHC2, B1900D, Aerostar 700, S76C+ helicopter,
+ Cessna Citation Bravo & CitationX, A6M2 'Zero'. Assisted with Cessna
+ Citation II with Curt and 777-200 with Justin Smithies.
+
+
+Mark Akermann <flightgear@akermann.org>
+ Redone sun code. The sun now consists of three textures with individual
+ colors which are calculated based on the effect of light scattering.
+ This is accomplished by using various environmental data and by
+ calculating the distance the light travels through the atmosphere.
+
+
Raul Alonzo <amil@las.es>
Mr. Alonzo is the author of Ssystem and provided his kind permission
for using the moon texture. I also used parts of his code as a template
Contributed to the HUD code.
+Andrei Barbu "T"Eval" teval@myrealbox.com
+ Designed and implemented the current version of the FlightGear website.
+
+
Michael Basler <pmb@knUUt.de>
Author of the Getting Started guide.
Oliver Delise <delise@mail.isis.de>
FAQ Maintainer, Documentation, Public Relations.
- Working on adding some networking / multi-user support.
+ Author of (the now depreciated) networking / multi-user support.
Founder of the FlightGear MultiPilot Project :
http://www.isis.de/members/~odelise/progs/flightgear
http://www.magic-software.com
+Olaf Flebbe
+ Improved the build system for Windows and provided pre-built
+ dependencies.
+
+
Jean-Francois Doue
Vector 2D, 3D, 4D and Matrix 3D and 4D inlined C++ classes. (Based on
Graphics Gems IV ed. Paul S. Heckbert)
them to our little project.
+Leidson Campos A. Ferreira <leidson@planetamessenger.org>
+ Rewrote the Jpeg screen httpd streaming (--jpg-httpd option)
+
+
Bruce Finney <bfinney@gte.net>
MSVC5 compatibility.
-Melchior Franz <a8603365@unet.univie.ac.at>
- Made that joystick high/low support for joystick hats.
- Created the led.txf font.
- Made some improvements of the telnet and the http interface.
+Melchior Franz <mfranz@aon.at>
+ Reworked the joystick driver detection code, added high/low support for
+ "hats". Nasal-ified the Saitek Cyborg Gold 3D (USB) joystick which now
+ forms the basis of a lot of programmable joysticks.
Ruthlessly hunted down memory leaks in FlightGear, SimGear, and JSBSim.
+ Maintains the only fully working helicopter model in FlightGear (Bolkow 105).
+ Made the GUI code fully XML configurable and added support for themes,
+ reworked property browser, route manager and several other dialogs.
+ Wrote Dynamic Cockpit View, Fly-By view and lots of other Nasal code.
+ Implemented Nasal "listeners".
Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler <zlib@gzip.org>
Erik Hofman <erik@ehofman.com>
Major overhaul and parameterization of the sound module, to allow
aircraft-specific sound configuration at runtime.
- Irix port.
+ Did a lot of code improvements and bug-hunting.
+ Creator of most of the ground textures.
+ Maintainer of the F-15, F-16, F-104, T-37, PC-7, Fokker 50 and 100 models.
+ Keeps the Irix port current.
Localization support.
http://dcb.larc.nasa.gov/www/DCBStaff/ebj/ebj.html
+Maik Justus <fg@mjustus.de>
+ Developed YASim's helicopter/rotor logic.
+ Implemented aerotowing, water plane and anchor support for YASim, and
+ made its gear aware of the surface material.
+ Wrote the Bo105 helicopter FDM configuration file.
+
+
+Ove Kaaven
+ Debian packaging of SimGear/FlightGear
+
+
Richard Kaszeta <bofh@me.umn.edu>
Contributed screen buffer to ppm screen shot routine.
Rich has also helped in the early development of the Flight Gear "altitude
Rich's Homepage: http://www.menet.umn.edu/~kaszeta
+Vassilii Khachaturov <vassilii@tarunz.org>
+ Support of navaids as autopilot waypoints.
+ Switching the tower view to a different tower at any time.
+ Various code, GUI, and documentation fixes and updates.
+
+
Tom Knienieder <tom@knienieder.com>
Ported Steve's Audio library first to OpenBSD and IRIX and
after that also to Win32
David Luff <david.luff@nottingham.ac.uk>
Contributed heavily to the IO360 piston engine model.
+ Created the ATC intelligent traffic subsystem.
+ Creator of TaxiDraw, a program to modify the taxiway layout
+ for FlightGear.
Lewis Magruder <blackhawk96@hotmail.com>
Contributed a first draft of a scenery creation howto.
-Curt Olson <curt@flightgear.org>
+Curt Olson <http://www.flightgear.org/~curt>
Curt is responsible for overall project and source code management.
He has his hands in many of the areas, but is primarily responsible
for the scenery subsystem, as well as much of the infrastructure in
the sim.
- Electrical system.
- Runway lighting.
+ Handles most parts of the regular scenery rebuild, including lots of
+ improvements of the vertex calculation code.
+ Added the nw PID based, configurable autopilot code.
+ Added the Electrical system.
+ Added Runway lighting.
Brian Paul
Frederic Bouvier <frbouvi@wanadoo.fr>
Added French language support
Keeps FlightGear MSVC compatible.
+ Did a number of code changes to improve the animation code.
+ Added a number of animations that improves the visual system quite a lot.
Did a nice job populating the San Francisco bay area by adding a lot
of static scenery.
information rather than aerodynamic coefficients.
Added support for placing 2D panel objects in 3D space.
Modified the HUD code to make it more accurate and added 3D support.
+ Modified the UI code to allow a far more flexible grouping system.
+ Added the Nasal scripting language and added FlightGear integration.
Paul Schlyter <pausch@saaf.se>
Moon has correct phase and blends well into the sky.
Planets are correctly positioned and have proper magnitude.
Help with time functions, gui, and other misc stuff.
+ Added the AirTraffic module for scheduled AI airliners and other aircraft.
2D Cloud layers (nifty).
http://people.a2000.nl/dtals
Ultra hires tiled screen dumps.
Contributed the initial 'goto airport' and 'reset' functions
Contributed the initial http image server code
+ Did the build instructions for OpenAL (and SDL) for Cygwin.
Roland Voegtli <voegtli@sanw.unibe.ch>
of extra controls which will prove to be usefull no and for the future.
Contributed a number of aircraft configuration files, including a T-38 and
Boeing 737.
+ Implemented the AIModels subsystem (originally based on the ATC traffic code)
+ and extended it to support ships, aircraft, ballistic objects, thunder-storms,
+ and thermals.
+ Added a lot of updated to JSBSIm, esp. for the turbine section.
Ed Williams <Ed_Williams@compuserve.com>
and modular. Contributed many small fixes and bug reports.
Contributed the the pui property browser.
Contributed to the autopilot.
- Created several excellent 3D aircraft models, including the p-51 and
- Boeing 747.
+ Created several excellent 3D aircraft models, including the p-51,
+ Wright Flyer and the Boeing 747.
Jean-Claude Wippler <jcw@equi4.com>
3d clouds
+Lee Elliot <leee@spatial.freeserve.co.uk>
+ Author of the YF-23, A-10, Ann225, B-52 and TSR-2 models.
+ Did a lot of suggestions for better aircraft modelling, some of which
+ resulted in code changes to accomplish them.
+
+
+Innis Cunningham <innisc@hotmail.com>
+ Modelled the 737 and contributed to the T38.
+
+
+Vivian Meazza <vivian.meazza@lineone.net>
+ Added a number of excellent aircraft models including the Hawker Hunter
+ and Seahawk.
+ Provided realistic wind, gravity and drag calculations for AIBallistic models,
+ as well as terrain intersections (impacts) of submodels.
+ Added the Fresnel Lens Optical Landing System and AI code for AICarrier and
+ AIShip, and implemented the TACAN navigation instrument
+
+
+David Culp <davidculp2@comcast.net>
+ Added the AI model and scenario code which allows non interactive models
+ (like aircraft, ships, ballistic models, storms and thermals) to move
+ around the scenery in a predefined way. Every model can have it's own
+ special characteristics. The thermal model for instance is a non-visible
+ model that creates an updraft around it's center.
+
+
+Mathias Fröhlich <Mathias.Froehlich@gmx.net>
+ Implemented the groundcache code which made it possible for aircraft
+ to follow the ground precisely and, as a result, made it possible to
+ land on aircraft carriers.
+ Modified YASim, JSBSim and LaRCsim to support the groundcache code.
+ Reorganized the code to eliminate the viewer jitter for close by objects.
+
+
+Harald Johnsen <hjohnsen@evc.net>
+ Added a new 3D cloud implementation which also works on big-endian machines.
+ This code allows for clouds of any types and any shapes (and even deformation
+ while moving).
+ Implemented volumetric shadowing.
+
+
+Roy Vegard Ovesen <rvovesen@tiscali.no>
+ Implemented the KAP140 autopilot.
+ Added a generic, XML configurable, autopilot framework.
+ Added an Altitude encoder.
+ Added a transponder.
+ Made the instruments code much more configurable, it is now possible to only
+ include instruments that are actually present.
+ Added several high level, configurable filter implementations for use by
+ autopilot designers.
+
+
+Stuart Buchanan <stuart_d_buchanan@yahoo.co.uk>
+ Substantial additions to the Getting Started Manual
+ Enhancements to the Cessna-310 3d model.
+ Added a generic yoke model, a generic throttle quadrant model and a
+ generic pedal set model.
+
+
+Stefan Seifert <nine@detonation.org>
+ Added the save-on-exit option to save the user preferences at program exit.
+
+
Space Imaging, Inc http://www.spaceimaging.com/
Space Imaging has allowed us to use the images in their archive for
commercial and non-commercial use, provided the original image can't be
THIS DOCUMENT WAS INITIALLY WRITTEN BY
-Curt L. Olson <curt@flightgear.org>
+Curt L. Olson <http://www.flightgear.org/~curt>
THE CONTENTS WERE LASTLY RESEARCHED AND UPDATED MARCH, 8 2000
Updated 2001-12-11 by David Megginson, david@megginson.com
-Updated 2003-04-17 by Erik Hofman, erik@ehofman.com
+Updated 2003-04-17,
+Updated 2004-06-01,
+Updated 2005-04-02 by Erik Hofman, erik@ehofman.com
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